Angel - Supernatural

5x13 - The Song Remains The Same

Warehouse – Night

Anna enters a dark space. Wind blows, sounding like voices. Anna looks around. "Hello? Who's there?"

Light bulbs overhead burst in showers of sparks. Anna turns slowly, and Castiel appears behind her.

"Hello, Anna"

"Well. If I didn't know any better..." Anna turns around "I'd say the Winchesters don't trust me"

"They do. I don't. I wouldn't let them come" Castiel circles Anna. She turns to keep facing her.

"And why is that?"

"If you're out of prison, it's because they let you out. And they sent you here to do their dirty work"

"And what makes you so sure?" Anna asks her.

"Because I've experienced...heaven's persuasion."

"You mean you gave me to them"

"That was a mistake" there is pause after Castiel told her that "Anna, whatever they sent you here to do—"

"They didn't send me. I escaped" Anna cuts her off.

"No one escapes"

"All these centuries, and you're underestimating me now?" Anna asks her.

"If you're not one of them, then what do you want?"

"I want to help"

"You want to help?" Castiel asks confused.

"Yes"

"Then what are you doing with that knife?" Castiel asks. There is a long pause before Anna draws the knife.

"I'm not allowed to defend myself?"

"Against whom? That blade doesn't work against angels. It's not like this one" Castiel is holding a long knife looking very like the one with which Anna killed Uriel. "Maybe you're not working for heaven. But there's something you're not telling me"

A pause while Anna steels herself "Sam Winchester has to die"

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"I'm sorry but we have no choice. He's Lucifer's vessel"

"He's not the only one" Castiel reminds her.

"What, that guy Nick? He's burning away as we speak. No. Sam is the only vessel that matters. You know what that means? If Lucifer can't take Sam, his whole plan short-circuits. No fight with Michael, no Croatoan virus. The horsemen go back to their day jobs." Anna explains.

"Even if you could...kill Sam, satan would just bring him back to life" Castiel tells her.

"Not after I scatter his cells across the universe" Castiel turns away "They'll never find him. Not all of him"

A long pause "We'll find another way" Castiel tells her.

"How's that going? How's the Colt working out? Or the search for God? Is anything working? If you want to stop the devil, this is how"

"The answer's still no. because Sam is my friend" Castiel refuses her.

"You've changed" Anna notes.

"Maybe too late, but I have" Castiel turns back to Anna "Anna, we've been through much together, but you come near Sam Winchester and I'll kill you" Anna hears this. A moment later, she's gone. Castiel looks up.

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Motel Room – Night

Castiel draws a symbol in chalk on a table. Sam sits on the far bed and Dean paces. "Really? Anna? I don't believe it" Dean refuses to believe it.